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fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive
In fact, though it counts as customers heavyweight companies like Capital One, Spotify and Netflix; it employs 500 employees; and it has
For one thing, the company is now a so-called unicorn, after raising $90 million in a September round led by Wellington and T
Rowe Price that brought its total funding to $173 million and its valuation to $1.3 billion
Crowded as the unicorn club may be these days, that number, and those backers, makes PagerDuty a startup of interest to a broader circle of
Michigan with both a liberal arts and a business management degree
In fact, in her first tech job out of PG, working for the bubble-era supply chain management startup I2 Technologies (it went public and was
PagerDuty is also helping its clients become proactive
software.
As corny as it sounds, Tejada seems to have been working toward her current career her whole life.Not that, like the rest of us,
she knew exactly what she was doing at all times
booked a round-trip ticket to Australia to get away and learn about yachts.She left the experience not only with her skipper certification
but in a relationship with her now-husband of 16 years, an Australian with whom she settled in Sydney for roughly 12 years.There, she worked
for a private equity firm, then joined Telecom New Zealand as its chief marketing officer for a couple of years, then landed soon after at
an enterprise software company that catered to asset-intensive industries, including mining, as its chief strategy officer
When that private-equity backed company was sold, Tejada took a breath, then was recruited to lead, for the first time, another company:
firm Thomas Bravo a couple of years later.The move gave her an opportunity to spend time with her now teenage daughter and husband, but she
It was PagerDuty.
She has been overseeing wild growth ever since
The company now counts more than half of the Fortune 50 as its customers
It has also doubled its headcount a couple of times since she joined roughly 28 months ago, and many of its employees (upwards of 43
explaining that diversity to her is not just about gender but also age and ethnic background and lifestyle choice and location and
types of users, people of a different age
and big corporates and low interest rates and huge venture funds, not to mention the increased willingness of big institutional investors to
